Top story of the week:
- Joe Biden is still president.
- Largest one-day arms deal in US history.
Top international non-energy story:
- Afghanistan exit. And here. And here.
Top international energy story:
- Price of oil crashes.
Top national non-energy story:
Top national energy story:
- WTI drops below $63.
- LNG exports surge.
- California to start building "transitory" power stations.
- Chesapeake acquires Vine.
Top North Dakota non-energy story:
Top North Dakota energy story:
- North Dakota retains #2 spot as nation's second-largest oil producer.
- Spiritwood: Marathon - Archer-Daniels-Midland joint venture, renewable diesel from soybeans.
- Blue hydrogen in North Dakota -- it's happening.
Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:
Operators:
- COP looking to sell Bakken assets.
- Comstock Resources looking to sell Bakken assets.
- Grayson Mill acquires several hundred wells from Equinor;
- CLR with four new Whitman permits.
- Scout Energy to re-enter a vertical Heath well; last produced in 1999; will convert to horizontal.
- A Petro-Hunt Charlson well production jumps 7x.
- An XTO Nygaard Federal well trending toward 500K bbls crude oil.
- Updating a nice XTO George Federal well in Lost Bridge.
- XTO's Thelma well back on line.
- After eighteen months, Whiting's Brown well is back on line.
- A Whiting Kannianen well goes over 500K bbls crude oil.
- A CLR Whitman well goes over 500K bbls crude oil.
Fracking:
Pipelines:
Bakken 101:
- The lower Three Forks: update; GeoNews;
- Saudi evaluates the Bakken;
- On-going 2020 USGS assessment of the Bakken.
Bakken economy:
Commentaries: